The Vet and the Pup starts a set about one small town and everyone who keeps it running. Decodable stories about community helpers, twelve of them, for grades 1 and 2. Reading practice that runs while you work with a group One large word appears at a time, and the child taps it forward at their own pace. The words reunite at the end of the sentence so the child reads it out loud as one line. You see who has the pattern before the class moves on The sound check that follows each story gives the child nine words and asks for the ones with the story's sound. Right taps show green, missed words orange, wrong taps red, and a score closes it. The set follows one order through four units, Unit 1, Short Vowels and Digraphs, then Unit 2, Blends, Magic e and Long a, then Unit 3, Long Vowel Teams, and finally Unit 4, R-Controlled and Diphthongs. That is why The Vet and the Pup teaches one pattern and The Loud Sound in Town teaches a different one. Paper practice for the homework folder Every story also comes as a printed page with the sound letters underlined and three written questions, and the packet adds a reading log and two pages of teacher notes. More Word by Word themes - Word by Word: Construction Site - Word by Word: Pet Shop - All 30 themes in the bundle